A Textbook Of Applied Mechanics

This book on 'APPLIED MECHANICS' has been specially written for 1st year engineering students of various disciplines for all the states of India. The text of the book is lucid, direct and easily understandable. It contains a large number of solved examples selected from various Universities' question papers.

Chapter 1 Price: 2.99

In any field the importance of a thorough knowledge of fundamentals cannot be over
emphasised. Fundamentals have always been stressed in the learning of new skills. Similarly, the
mechanics branch of science which deals with the forces and their effect on bodies on which they act
is founded on basic concepts and forms the ground-work for further study in the design and analysis
of machines and structures. Mechanics can be divided into two parts. (Fig. 1.1)
(i) ‘Statics’ which relates to the bodies at rest and (ii) ‘dynamics’ which deals with bodies in
motion. (In mechanics the term strength of materials refers to the ability of the individual parts of a
machine or structure to resist loads. It also permits the determination of dimensions to ensure

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8.1. Introduction. 8.2. Momentum. 8.3. Newton’s first law of motion. 8.4. Newton’s second law of
motion. 8.5. Newton’s third law of motion. 8.6. Gravitational and absolute units of force. 8.7. Law
of conservation of momentum. 8.8. Impulse and impulsive force. 8.9. D’ Alembert’s principle.
8.10. Motion of lift. 8.11. Motion of two bodies connected by a string passing over a smooth
pulley. 8.12. Motion of two bodies connected at the edge of a horizontal surface. 8.13. Motion of
two bodies connected by a string one end of which is hanging free and the other lying on a rough
inclined plane. 8.14. Motion of two bodies connected over rough inclined planes—Highlights—
Objective Type Questions—Unsolved Examples.